(Sure-Fire Comics 002, 1940)
The Tiger Man (also referred to as the much snappier Tiger Mask in one panel but I reckon that was just some sort of lettering error or other style of brain glitch) is a fellow in an extremely cool cowl mask who is trying to corner the pearl market in the South Seas using some very crooked tactics, such as sticking pearl bed owner Rita van Dyke on a raft and abandoning her at sea. Only the intervention of Flash Lightning saves her, and he only knows to do so because the Old Man of the Pyramids tells him to.
This is in many ways a fun little adventure, marred frequently by the threat being stated as "those dastardly South Seas natives trying to steal the pearl trade from the virtuous white people" (barely a paraphrase).
Eventually, the Tiger Man is unmasked and it turns out that he didn't kill Rita's uncle as she had thought but rather that he was her uncle and that in addition to the harrowing near-death experience she just had she is going to have to really reevaluate a lifetime of memories and maybe have some serious talks with any other parents/cousins/etc who might be kicking around. Talk about an awkward next Thanksgiving dinner, am I right?
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